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On Mother’s Day

An intimate look at how mass incarceration impacts a mother on Mother’s Day.

Featuring Anita Wills and Kerry Baxter, Sr.

(Documentary, TRT: 6 minutes, 29 seconds)

  • Director: Ellie Wen

  • Producer: Ellie Wen

  • Cinematographer: Ellie Wen

  • Editor: Ellie Wen

  • Sound Recordist: Whitney Legge

  • Composer: Daniel Walter

  • Sound Mixer: Dan Olmsted, Erik Reimers

  • Colorist: Peter Swartz

(Produced in the Documentary Film MFA Program at Stanford University)

Festivals & Honors:

  • Now Streaming on The New Yorker, 2021

  • Best Local Filmmaker Award, UN Women Global Voices Film Festival, 2019

  • Documentary Short Winner, Oakland Short Film Festival, 2019

  • Finalist, FOLCS International Short Film Competition, 2019 

  • March on Washington Film Festival, 2019

  • Oakland International Film Festival, 2019

  • Black Harvest Film Festival, 2019

  • Still Voices Short Film Festival, 2019

  • BASH - Bay Area Shorts Film Festival, 2019

  • San Francisco Black Film Festival, 2019

  • National Black Film Festival, 2019

  • Pan African Film Festival, 2019